Speak up on schools

QUEENS­LAND fam­i­lies will have a di­rect say on the fu­ture ed­u­ca­tion of their chil­dren with the New­man LNP Gov­ern­ment call­ing for more com­mu­nity in­put on the strong 30-year plan to re­vi­talise our school sys­tem. Min­is­ter for Ed­u­ca­tion, Train­ing and Em­ploy­ment John-Paul Lang­broek re­leased the draft Ed­u­ca­tion Ac­cord which set the pri­or­i­ties for Queens­land schools to 2044. He en­cour­aged all Queens­lan­ders to view the on­line draft and have their say and con­trib­ute to­wards shap­ing the fi­nal Ac­cord in 2015. The draft Ac­cord is avail­able on­line for pub­lic com­ment un­til Fe­bru­ary 2015. View the draft at http://deta.qld.gov.au/about/ed­u­ca­tionac­cord/.